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Always Looking for Roads In One thing about hiking with CMT: you have to do a long hike in short bursts. That means I’m always scanning maps for back roads that touch the trail. According to Google Maps, our future … Continue reading
Category Archives: NonFiction
Through the Crowded Parts of Rancho San Antonio The Only Section I Hiked Alone It’s sweet to share a big hiking project with a beloved who accepts and enjoys my quirks. (Like when I say, “Let’s start this hike by … Continue reading
To Rancho San Antonio and Real Trails at Last A Secret Back Entrance? Rancho San Antonio Open Space is a beautiful park with hillside trails, quiet glades and hikes of all levels of challenge. Geri and I hardly ever dare … Continue reading
A Simple Walk It was Saturday and Geri and I had just a few hours. Just time to finish last week’s walk to Heritage Oaks Park and maybe go a few blocks further. So we planted our feet across from … Continue reading
A Hike Which Changed My Life Park to Park In an ideal world, each section of our Hike to the Ridge would start and end at a city park until we reached the hills and real trails. Today, we planned … Continue reading
(Dodging Cars and Smelling Roses in Time of Plague) Cuteness Explosion “Shall we put our feet where they were last time?” Geri asked, smiling. “You bet.” We stood hand in hand in Cuesta Park, where we’d first had our view … Continue reading
(Memories of the Tooth’s First Bite) Calling in the Past, Hiking On There was something I hadn’t told Geri yet as we stood together in Bubb Park a week after our first hike. “So there’s something I always do,” I … Continue reading
I was once a world class backpacker. Now I’ve got a nerve disease that makes my legs so weak I can barely hike a few miles in a day, even without a pack. And of course the world is closed … Continue reading
A Memory Walk Through Harbin Beloved Places I think of beloved places I can visit now only in memory. There was the old Academy of Sciences with the gleaming brass pendulum that swung outside the planetarium and the dioramas in … Continue reading
I’m still working on the next story in my “Safe as Houses” series, so I’ll share some thoughts this week. Since one of the episodes of “Inside Job” took place in a comic book store, here’s a shout out to … Continue reading